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VOL.101.NO.3
KANSAS STATE HISTORICAL
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THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
TUFSDAY,AUGUST27,1991
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Rising KU tuition reflects national trend as students help schools meet higher costs
By Justin Knupp
Kansan staff writer
Kansan staff writer
Nationally, the 1991-92 school year is seeing the largest public university tuition increases in more than a decade. The University of Kansas is no exception.
For the 1991-92 school year, KU posted an 8 percent increase for Kansas students and a 15 percent increase for non-resident students. This means that an in-state undergraduate student paid an extra $49 during fee payment last week. An out-of-state undergraduate student paid $236 more than
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Jon Josserman, an assistant for governmental relations for the University, said many states were having problems with their budgets and were looking to finance services without raising taxes.
"In higher education nationally, as well as in Kansas, there is significant pressure to increase tuition," he said.
However, things are worse in other states. California, which ranks among the highest in the nation for tuition levels, showed an overall average tuition increase of 20 percent.
Tuitions made a 40 percent jump in the University of California system. An in-state undergraduate student in California can expect to spend over
$2.200 on tuition alone for the 1991-92 school year.
schools.
According to an Associated Press survey, 25 states posted tuition increases higher than those in Kansas, while 17 states posted lower increases. Seven states made increases of similar levels.
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Rich Morrell, KU registrar of student records, said he thought that KU was still an educational bargain.
"Right now, $1,324 is not a bad price to pay for a year's tuition," he said.
The problems at San Diego State University became so bad that the university laid off nearly 550 part-time instructors. An estimated 1,100 students failed to get even one class.
These problems drove students to
the streets to protest the economic conditions of their school.
James Appleberry, president of the American Association of State Colleges and Universities, said he felt that such tuition increases could thwart campus efforts to diversify and attract new students.
"I personally don't have any idea if the pattern of tuition level increases will continue in Kansas in the future or if they will level up," Morrall said.
The Associated Press contributed information to this story.
Rich Morrell said he was not certain the direction the price of college educations would take.
On the first night of auditions for the University Theatre, Kansas City, Mo., senior Rita Beier performs a monologue in front of a nine-member casting panel. Auditions for the fall semester, which features six performances, will continue Tuesday. The cast list will be posted Saturday in the Green Room at Murphy Hall.
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Crime in the Kansas Schools
Students Total Crimes #per 1000 Violent Crime Property Crime
| | Students | Total/Crimes | per 1000 | Violent Crime | Property Crime |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Emporia State | 5,763 | 186 | 32.6 | 2 | 184 |
| Fort Hays State | 5,005 | 91 | 18.2 | 1 | 91 |
| Kansas State | 19,301 | 526 | 27.2 | 6 | 520 |
| Pittsburg State | 5,637 | 83 | 14.8 | 1 | 82 |
| Kansas | | | | | |
| Lawrence | 26,020 | 960 | 36.9 | 15 | 945 |
| Medical Center | 2,383 | 254 | 110.4 | 3 | 251 |
| Wichita State | 16,673 | 229 | 13.7 | 3 | 226 |
KU ranked 21st in campus crime
FBI reports that at Med Center in 1990, 110 crimes occurred per 1,000 persons
By Melissa Rodgers
Kansan staff writer
KU ranked 21st in campus crime among 403 U.S. colleges and universities, according to an FBI report.
The 1960 ranking was released Aug. 14 by the U.S. Department of Justice in its annual publication, "Crime in the United States."
The ranking, which only included universities and colleges that had independent police forces, was based on 1988 Department of Education enrollment figures and 1990 KU crime figures.
KU was 37th in student population of the 404 universities ranked.
According to FBI statistics, 15 violent crimes and 945 property crimes occurred at KU in 1990.
The Lawrence campus had a crime rate of 37 crimes per 1,000 people. The University of Kansas Medical Center average rate of 110 crimes per 1,000 people.
John Mullens, KU police representative, said that according to the FBI's KU enrollment figure of 20,020, the KU officers are the largest police jurisdiction in the state.
However, the FBI's figures do not account for campus visitors and about a quarter of those who report to the FBI.
Mulens said the Kansas Bureau of
population is $6,000 in赡ed KU's population
pls about $6,000.
The violent crimes on campus were robbery and aggravated assault. The
property crimes were burglary, theft and stolen vehicles.
The KU crime figures were compiled by the KU police and provided to the FBI by the Kansas Bureau of Investigation.
most campuses are low in violent crime but high in property crime," Mullens said. "Universities usually have about one-half the crime of their surrounding community."
According to "Crime in the United States," Lawrence's crime rate was 71 crimes per 1,000 people and Kansa's crime rate was 52 crimes per 1,000 people.
Mullens said new students should not come to KU thinking that it is a safe haven.
He said KU might be safer than their home communities but they could not be guaranteed immunity from crime.
Jack Pearson, police director at the Med Center, said, "The FBI using the Med Center enrollment as the Med Center population is very misleading."
Although the Med Center's enrollment is 2,383,about 15,000 people are there each day,Pearson said.
The FBI should use the 15,000-population figure in the statistics to make the following observations.
Pearson said 85 to 90 percent of the crime incidents at the Med Center had not involved students but employees, visitors and local Kansas City, Kan., residents.
Lawrence businesses enjoy increased sales with students' return
By Heather Anderson
Kansan staff writer
Students are not the only people who have to prepare for hours of hard work in August.
Each fall, Lawrence businesses get ready for an increase in sales when KU students return to school.
Southwestern Bell Telephone is one business that has to be ready for this return, said Mike Scott, the company's Lawrence community relations manager.
Scott said 22 percent of new customers each year sign up for phone service in August. Sixteen percent of customers who change residences during the year move during this month.
This is the busiest time of the year," Scott said.
Southwestern Bell handles all of the local calls and some of the long distance calls made within the state, he said.
Laurel Horken, executive director of Downtown Lawrence, Inc., also said local businesses see a sharp increase in sales when students come back.
Scott said the company also received many calls from students who wanted to try different services such as call waiting and call trace.
The company increases its staff in the business office and in the installation crew in August to take care of the rush, he said.
*"Business especially increases in stores that sell necessities to students for their apartments or dorm rooms."* Horken said.
Southwestern Bell is not the only business that sees a sharp increase in customers during August.
The company also extends its hours so it can help more people, Scott said.
Gorbachev finds support lacking for Union Treaty
She also said that clothing stores experienced an increase in business because KU students and other students in Lawrence shopped for clothes during August.
our high school summer school ends, Horken said, business slows down, but it picks up during the two weeks before school starts.
The Associated Press
MOSCOW — President Mikhail Gorbachev promised new elections and pledged yesterday to preserve his national government, but leaders of Soviet republics told him Kremlin central authority already is dead.
"The whole of the center has completely out-lived itself. It is dead. It committed suicide." Armenian President Levon Ter-Petrosian told the Supreme Soviet legislature.
A key Gorbachev ally in his efforts to preserve the union, Kazakhstan President Nurmaluzan Nazbayev, reversed himself and told lawmakers that the republics should have their own armies and foreign policy.
Oward insisted. Addressing the legislature for the first time since the bungled hard-line takeover that briefly trotted him, Gorbachev promised new national elections six months after the signing of the Union Treaty, his proposal to hold the country together. But there appeared to be little support for the treaty now.
Nazarbaye proposed that independence be granted at once to the Baltics and other republics seeking to secede. Gorbachev, while not endorsing Baltic independence outright in his speech, did not repeat his earlier demands that republics follow a lengthy secession process.
In seeking autonomy or outright independence, the republic leaders were taking their cue from Russian Federation President Boris Yeltsin, who has greatly expanded his authority in the wake of the failed coup.
The Soviet president also told lawmakers he blamed himself for not heeding the signs that the coup was coming, calling it a "lesson of the first order."
Many Western nations, meanwhile, were establishing diplomatic relations with the Baltic republics of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, so they could do so. Among them was the United States.
President Bush said the United States is close to recognizing Baltic independence. He also said the upheaval in the Soviet Union, capped by Gorbachev's resignation Saturday as Communist Party head, has sounded the death knell of the Communist movement around the world.
In other developments yesterday one week after the coun:
- Lithuania took control of its border posts and began issuing visas, and the president of Uzbekistan told the republic's parliament to
prepare a declaration of independence. The Moldavian parliament scheduled a session for today to decide on a similar question, and Uzbek President Islam Karimov ordered his parliament to draft independence legislation, the Tass news agency reported.
- Nikolai Kruchina, the Communist Party official responsible for administering its enormous wealth, committed suicide yesterday by jumping out of the window of his seventh-floor apartment, the KGB said. His was the third reported suicide since the coup failed.
— The Izvista newspaper and Tass, the Soviet news agency, moved to drop their role as official organs of the Soviet government and become independent.
In his address to lawmakers, Gorbachev spoke of the profound changes that have swept the country since his brief ouster.
"They say that I came back to a different country," Gorbachev said. "I agree with that. To that I can add that to this different country, a person has come who sincerely looks at everything—at the past, at today and the possibilities—with different eyes."
Gerbaches said the republics must be given the right of independent choice and added that those wanting to secede could engage in negotiations to leave the union.
That appeared to be only a softening of his previous position that republics must follow a complex constitutional path away from the Kremlin.
"Icall for an immediate decision on the question of restoration of full freedoms for the Baltics, Moldavia and Georgia, and all who have expressed their stirring for independence in a democratic manner," said Nazarbayev, who previously had opposed secession.
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Representatives of the republics echoed Yusuf's call for drastic changes in the Union Treaty, which would redefine the relationship between the Soviet central government and the republics. Some, like Nazarbayev, went further.
vizarbayev, president of the fourth most populous republic, said there should be no national parliament or Cabinet of Ministers and he would have their own armies and foreign ministers.
The few functions left to the national government, he said, should be border defense and a special Defense Ministry council to control nuclear weapons.
The Soviet coup: Could one happen in the United States?
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Americans could sit back last week and watch a coup unfold in the other superpower, confident that it couldn't happen here. Or could it?
On this fundamental question — whether a handful of conspirators could seize the U.S. government and take over — historians are surprisingly uncertain and divided.
Some point to 200 years of experience, in which power routinely changed hands in times tough and placid, as evidence that American fidelity to a nation can be biologically driven conspirator could ever find people in high places to go along.
Others are not so sanguine. These are tranquil days in America, but there have been times when mobs roamed the streets and the durability of democracy was worried about.
One national division was so great it took a civil war to put the country together again. Home-grown fascists had millions of followers during the Depression. A president feared to go anywhere in public except to military bases during the Vietnam frenc- and crowds called him a murderer.
Such conspiracy is not in the American character, said Joan Hoff, a historian at Indiana University.
Four presidents were killed and six other assassination attempts failed, but none of those events resulted from seize-the-government conspiracies.
to hold the presidency. And Samuel R. Gammon III, executive director of the American Historical Association, said even during the Red Scare of the 1920s and the McCarthy era of the 1950s, the pendulum of public opinion always came
"What we have that the Soviets have never developed is the institutionalized succession of power," she said, reflecting on the failed putsch in the Soviet Union. "We are totally imbued in it."
around in time to knock down what looked like a threat to democratic order.
haken in the McCarthy hysteria, the backlash was finally there and ultimately destroyed him, "Gammon said."
And if the White House had been occupied by someone indifferent to the Depression's suffering, if no Franklin Roosevelt had come along "to create a sense that something was being done," a demagogue could have seized power in America, said historian Howard Zinn.
Zinn, author of "A People's History of the United States," is not so persuaded that it could not happen here under the right circumstances.
"I would like to think that the American people are so resistant, so imbued with democratic ideas that the country could not be taken over by some military or political clique," Zinn said, "but I don't think that's so.
I can't think it is improbable given the volatility of public opinion and the power of important people to con or use the media in the way the administration used the media during the gulf war to move public opinion from opposition to 85 percent support of military action in a number of days."
"Coups are not simply done by force," he added. "Force is used against those who won't be persuaded, but for the most part it is persuasion. Hitler didn't take over by force. Basically, be persuaded the German people he was the best thing in the world for them. I think the American people are as vulnerable as anybody else to persuasion."
On the other hand, Zinn is convinced that in America, as in Boris Yeltsin's Russia, a coup wouldn't last long before public revulsion undid it.
"That's where our history and claims of constitutionality and civil liberties and values are important," he said.